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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1971
Page
3
The Price Commission moves toward establishing guidelines for residential rent and health costs after the freeze ended four weeks ago, signaling a step forward in unsettled economic policy.
Three armed men hijacked a Lanka Airlines BAC111 from Miami to Managua and directed it to Cuba. In San Jose they released 49 passengers and five crew fled as guards flushed the hijackers with tear gas. one attacker, Paul Arana, was killed, others arrested. Alfonso Lovo Blandon, son of Nicaragua’s agriculture minister, was wounded and hospitalized.
U S backed assault begins with 6000 South Vietnamese troops penetrating eastern Cambodia toward Chup. North Vietnamese HQ in Chup area targeted as air power softens the rubber plantation with B52 strikes. Viet Cong sapper attack near Qui Nhon harbors losses for U S forces as Hanoi forces shift in Cambodia. US troop levels in South Vietnam fall to 171,700.
Nixon and Pompidou held a 2 1/2 hour talks in the Azores to map U S policy ahead of visits to Peking and Moscow. The discussions covered foreign policy and the international monetary crisis with top aides including Connally Kennedy Rogers Kissinger and Hillebrand.
New York AP report recalls David Sarnoff childhood messenger job at five fifty a week and his rise to RCA and NBC founder. Born in Russia, he immigrated in 1900 and helped relay Titanic disaster news in 1912. His leadership spanned radio to satellites with 12,000 products and over $3 billion in annual sales at retirement.
Washington AP Secretary of Commerce Maurice H. Stans defends a private foundation stake of 24,302 in Siam Kraft Paper Co citing it as minor and unrelated to a conflict of interest. He says no income or tax breaks accrue to him and notes prior disclosures involving Penn Central and related investments.
The piece profiles U S military notification officers who deliver death news from Vietnam. It notes the emotional toll on officers like Lt Col Ralph Willers and Maj Eugene Fudge, the shift from telegrams to personal notices, and the survivors assistance role. Families react with shock, grief, and gratitude for support.
AP reports 22 Americans eight scientists and 14 Navy men will winter at the South Pole base starting mid February. They face six months of darkness and temperatures to 80 to 100 below zero with outdoor work, isolation, and bouts of low mood studied by psychiatrist Dr. Lynn Salem.
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